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The Science of Sensory Marketing - HBR - 0 views
How We Write About Love - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Are Colorized Photos Rewriting History? - 0 views
Trigger alerts are dumbing down education - Salon.com - 0 views
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"And then the New York Times took on the issue this week, with a feature on how "The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm." In it, writer Jennifer Medina reports that students at "Oberlin College, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, George Washington University and other schools" have this year all requested trigger warnings accompany certain classroom materials."
How We Failed the Lost Girls Kidnapped by Boko Haram | TIME.com - 0 views
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"We were fascinated with the search for the Malaysian plane and the search for survivors on the South Korean ferry. Why wasn't the media also focused on searching for the missing girls? MORE Nigerian Militants Sell Kidnapped Schoolgirls as Child Brides Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls Said to Be Taken to Islamist Stronghold Another Deadly Blast in Nigeria as Stability Erodes "
Using a foreign language changes moral decisions -- ScienceDaily - 0 views
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"Would you sacrifice one person to save five? Such moral choices could depend on whether you are using a foreign language or your native tongue. A new study from psychologists finds that people using a foreign language take a relatively utilitarian approach to moral dilemmas, making decisions based on assessments of what's best for the common good."
A Visual Dictionary of Philosophy: Major Schools of Thought in Minimalist Geometric Gra... - 0 views
The Philosophers' Mail - 0 views
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"Such are the limits of our own concentration and emotional resources, having a serious and appropriate concern for ourselves and the handful of people who deeply depend upon us must frequently involve a calculated restriction of sympathy for, and interest in, others - a due recognition, in other words, that (despite what the news insists, for its own commercial reasons) not everything that happens out there over the Vietnam sea and the Malay hills can or should be our business."
The Truth Is, Philosophy Rules Your World : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR - 0 views
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" Life must matter; you must make sure it does. This is what Goldstein aptly calls the "ethos of the extraordinary," the need to carve your permanence in this life so that it survives after your death. Blending Plato and Dylan Thomas, the message would go like this: rage, rage against the ordinariness of sameness. "It is, in the end, the only kind of immortality for which we may hope," Goldstein writes."